Biography EssayBetween 1923, when her first volume of short stories, Encounters, appeared, and 1975, when her last volume of memoirs, Pictures and Conversations, was published posthumously, Elizab...
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The British writer Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) dealt with the strivings of the individual will to fulfill itself in an alien and hostile world. She is considered a major British novelist of the 20th c...
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Between 1923, when her first volume of short stories, Encounters, appeared, and 1975, when her last volume of memoirs, Pictures and Conversations, was published posthumously, Elizabeth Bowen produced ...
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Though not a literary giant of the stature of James Joyce or Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen is an important twentieth-century literary figure whose fiction has been well received. In presenting the...
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Critical Essay by Douglas A. Hughes
In a recent study of Elizabeth Bowen, Allan E. Austin has written, "'The Demon Lover' is a ghost story that builds up and then culminates like...
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In the following essay, Calder suggests that "The Demon Lover" is an allegory of war, drawing parallels between the story's imagery and the cultural context of its composition.
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In the following essay, Fraustino counters Douglas A. Hughes's assessment of “The Demon Lover” as a “psychological delusion,” maintaining that the story is intended ...
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Critical Review by Hugh Bradenham
A review of "The Demon Lover," in Life and Letters, Vol. 47, No. 100, 1945, pp. 216-18.
In the following review, Bradenham comments on the themes of...
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In the following essay, Calder explores "The Demon Lover" as allegory.
Of all of Elizabeth Bowen's short stories, none has been anthologized as often as "The Demon Lover...
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Critical Essay by Elizabeth Bowen
"The Demon Lover," in The Mulberry Tree: Writings of Elizabeth Bowen, edited by Hermione Lee, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987, pp. 94-9.
The followi...
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In the following excerpt, Saul faults Bowen's short stories, including those contained within The Demon Lover, and Other Stories for their "brittle" and "self-consciously s...
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Critical Essay by Douglas A. Hughes
"Cracks in the Psyche: Elizabeth Bowen's The Demon Lover'," in Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. X, No. 4, Fall, 1973, pp. 411-13.
In t...
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In the essay below, Fraustino develops arguments against Douglas A. Hughes's assessment of "The Demon Lover" as a "psychological delusion," maintaining that this sto...
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Critical Essay by Hermione Lee
"An Awful Illumination: The Demon Lover (1945) and The Heat of the Day (1949)," in Elizabeth Bowen: An Estimation, Vision and Barnes & Noble Books,...
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Critical Essay by Allan E. Austin
"The Shorter Fiction," in Elizabeth Bowen, Twayne Publishers, 1989, pp. 70-86.
Here, Austin explores Bowen's writing process and the author&#...
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In the excerpt below, Morris asserts that the supernatural aspect of "The Demon Lover" helps to convey social and historical meaning. The critic also examines the tension as it builds in...
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Critical Essay by Phyllis Lassner
"Comedies of Sex and Terror," in Elizabeth Bowen: A Study of the Short Fiction, Twayne Publishers, 1991, pp. 54-74.
In the excerpt below, Lassner ex...
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Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth (Dorothea Cole) Bowen
Critical Essay by Douglas A. Hughes
